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filmmaker Alexsandr Sokurov's Mother and Son screens at the Harvard
Film Archive in July. COURTESY OF CAHIERS DU CINÉMA |
EXHIBITIONS. At the Fogg, works by Goya, Manet, Picasso, de Kooning, and Rauschenberg, among others, go on display when Touchstone: 200 Years of Artists' Lithographs opens on August 15. Continuing exhibits include The John Witt Randall Collection: Seeking the True and the Beautiful; Brice Marden: Work Books; Gianlorenzo Bernini: Sketches in Clay; The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection; France and the Portrait, 1799-1870; Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the Nineteenth Century; Investigating the Renaissance; and The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures. At the Sackler, Princes, Poets, and Paladins: Islamic and Indian Paintings from the Collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan closes August 9. Remaining on view are Empress, Goddess, State: Depictions of Women on Ancient and Byzantine Coinage; Coins of Alexander the Great; and a wall drawing by Sol LeWitt, in the lobby. At the Busch-Reisinger, Positioning Nature and Industry: A Selection of Contemporary Art from the Busch-Reisinger Museum continues. There is free admission to the museums on Wednesdays and on Saturday mornings during the summer. For more details, call (617) 495-9400.
The Semitic Museum offers a glimpse into the workings of an ancient Mesopotamian town in Nuzi and the Hurrians: Fragments from a Forgotten Past. Call 495-4631 for more information.
The Museum of Cultural and Natural History's Friends' Gallery presents Exploring the Antarctic Landscape: Paintings by Lucia deLeiris. Call 495-3045 for details.
Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's work stays on display at the Harvard Theatre Collection in Pusey Library. Call 495-2445 for further information.
Canopy, the digital photography of Bunting Institute fellow Esther Parada, remains on view until July 30 at the Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery. Call 495-8212 for more information.
THEATER. First up for the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's 1998 season at the Loeb Experimental Theatre is Ken Ludwig's farce Lend Me a Tenor, from June 26 until July 11. Othello follows from July 16 to August 1, and Tony Kushner's Slavs! takes the stage from August 6 to August 22. Call 496-2222 for tickets, or 495-4597 for more detailed information.
FILM. For alternatives to the summer blockbusters, check out the Harvard Film Archive in July and August. Offerings include the series Masterpieces of World Cinema, with a special focus on silent films--accompanied by live music--by King Vidor, Fritz Lang, Chaplin, and Hitchcock; a retrospective of Jean Renoir's films, including La Chienne and The River; and a lecture on July 9 by the HFA's founding curator, Vlada Petric, on Alexsandr Sokurov's film Mother and Son, to be screened afterwards. Call 495-4700 for details.
MUSIC. Gustav Holst's Suite in E-flat Major, selections from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, and the music of John Williams and Allen Feinstein '86 form the program for the Harvard Summer Pops Band concerts, on July 29 at 4 p.m. on the steps of Widener Library, and on August 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston. Call 496-band for additional details.
PROGRAMS. Classes and programs at the Arnold Arboretum range from basic care for trees and shrubs to economic botany. Call 524-1718 to get information about these and other programs.
The Museum of Cultural and Natural History offers a wide range of children's programs during the summer. Call 495-2341 for a full listing of classes, or call 495-2463 for information about the museum's travel program.
Free observatory nights, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, each include a lecture, a short film or video, and telescopic viewing from the observatory roof, weather permitting. On July 16, Alan MacRobert, of Sky and Telescope Magazine, delivers a talk entitled "Finding Your Way in the Sky," and on August 20, Peter Garnavich, of the Center for Astrophysics, lectures on "Supernovae and the Fate of the Universe." Call 495-7461 for more information, or call 496-star for a recorded guide to the night sky.